Breda, Netherlands
Sander Olislagers — product and growth leader: experience, cases and writing
Director of Product & Growth
I'm a product leader who turns company vision into outcome-driven roadmaps and builds teams that can actually deliver them. Over the past decade I've moved organizations from gut feeling to evidence-based decision making, leading a Product & Growth organization of up to 19 people to 28% revenue growth and 29% gross-margin growth in 2023. I care as much about the health and autonomy of the team as I do about the numbers.
Two minutes
Faster than a cover letter, more honest than a bullet list
If you're weighing whether I'd fit your team, start here. The video covers how I approach problems, the kind of environment I do my best work in, and what I'm looking for next.
Most recently Director of Product & Growth at Bambelo.
Recent writing
AI experiment: a daily column
An automatically generated column I built as an experiment. How I built this site.
Daily columnTreat Deliberate Exclusions as Product Decisions
Product strategy should define which capabilities will remain absent, because deliberate limits can create more value than another round of feature expansion.
Daily columnSupplier Momentum Is Not Customer Demand
Product leaders should stop treating funding, competitor launches and lower build costs as evidence that customers will adopt or pay for a product.
Daily columnYour Roadmap Needs an Absorption Limit
Roadmaps should limit concurrent change according to the capacity of customers and the wider company to adopt it, not the capacity of engineers to ship it.